On the subject of 'EX' - look what has happened to our trees....
When F took this photo the day was overcast and grey, but on Sunday when the trees were scalped, the sun was high and hot. Suddenly we have views of things I didn't want to be able see (a pack, yes a pack, of dogs, big dogs, lives on the roof of one of the houses exposed to my view), and the whole place looks bleached and bare.
No shade.
Now we can see all the way to Vouliagmenis - it is a peninsula that sticks out of the Athens southern suburbs. Now we are less likely to see the small murmuration of starlings that used to wheel past in the evenings and roost in trees around the inlet.
C'est la vie. Humans planted them, I guess humans can cut them off. I guess they have their reasons.
That seems pretty drastic. I wonder why they all had to be decimated. Have trees been felled or have they just been cut back so may regrow?
ReplyDeleteI suspect a certain degree of fire risk 'reduction' going on. It is a bit drastic though and fire risk can also be reduced in other less short-sighted ways.
DeleteOh no. That will make it even hotter.
ReplyDeleteBut you do get a nicer view I suppose
Definitely hotter.
Deletesince they left part of the tree, so far, i am wondering if these trees will come back even better. I know here some of our trees when cut back like this get even more bushy when the come back. I love trees and hope these are not gone forever. I like a view with trees much more than without. plus all the shade when it gets hot.. about the dogs on the roof, do you have a zoom to show us? my curiosty is KILLING me
ReplyDeleteEucalyptus are pretty hard to kill. They will come back eventually. Dogs on roof - no my available cameras will not pick them up. And we are not going any closer than we have to - they are big and loud and scary and run down the internal stairs and bark and snarl at the grill on the street door if you walk past on their side of the street; and do it in just such a way as to wait until you forget they will do it and then scare the bej.... out of you. We think there are 5 or 6, all BIG, all LOUD. Neighbour tells me they never leave the place. The roofs are flat by the way and every building has roof access from inside. They clearly leave their roof door open for the dogs.
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ReplyDelete... it begs the question, 'why pollard those two and not the rest?'... or is there more to be done? I am guessing if it was disease or something, the whole trees would have gone. Does the council website not give info on such actions? Hugs and whiskeries, YAM-aunt yxxx
All the ones growing out of the footpath all the way round the inlet have been done. Two growing below the roadline have been left - for now. Maybe they ran out of time last Sunday. xxx Mr T
DeleteAre they pollarding the trees I wonder like they do in France with Plane trees? Og for some sun and heat heat today.
ReplyDeleteIt is a kind of pollarding. The neighbours tells us it is only done every 4 or 5 years. They are Aussie gum trees. They will grow back, but everyone thinks this is bit excessive given what they provide by way of shade, and the local belief that the Eucalyptus vapour keeps mozzies away. (If it does, then based on mozzie population density in years past, I hate think what it will be like this year!)
DeleteI hope those trees grow back quickly. They look so bare like that.
DeleteWe hope so too. We have our fingers crossed for gums trees being as persistent as we remember them in NZ. (We didn't see them in UK.)
DeleteOur trees have just been cut like that as well. The council does it every few years. They grow back very quickly. When the olive trees are pruned around us suddenly we can see our nieghbours, who arent all that close, and they can see us . Too close for comfort. I prefer long leafy branches, unless they are blocking our sea view.
ReplyDeleteYeah - like Panagiota next door says, I can see things I don't want to.
Deletemiaow tigger. you must have tough paws. i wouldn't want to have to dig in there, not with a pack of nasty big dogs watching. much softer here in yorkshire. phoebe.
ReplyDeletePhoebe - you are lucky to have a garden. I have to live in apartment now and had to learn to dig in a big box of wood pellets. The concession is the apartment has 2 bathrooms and I have one all to myself (privacy). There are also planter troughs on the balcony which are ideal for digging in, so ideal in fact that F gave up trying to grow plants in one and just filled it with wood pellets too. We have arrived at a truce.
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